Saturday, July 13, 2013

Dear Friends, Greetings of peace, light and blessing from
Africa. Hope this finds you all in peace and good health. I am happy to inform
you that the 8th Navajo Nation Vice President, Hon. Rex Lee Jim joined us in
proclaiming the Golden Rule Day.

Background information about the Hon. Rex Lee Jim, Vice President of Navajo
Nation, Window Rock, AZ. After serving as a ranking member on the Judiciary
Committee and Chairman of the Public Safety Committee within the 21st Navajo
Nation Council, Delegate Rex Lee Jim was sworn in as Vice President of the
Navajo Nation on January 11, 2011.

Born and raised in Rock Point, a small farming and ranching community in
northern Arizona. Vice President Jim after graduating from Princeton University
started work with the Rock Point Community School teaching Navajo to students K-12.
During this time, he developed a curriculum for K-Graduate programs that was
culturally and pedagogically appropriate for Navajo students. He has published
books and produced plays using the Navajo language. An author, playwright, and
medicine man, Vice President Jim continues to make diplomatic trips abroad on
behalf of the United Nations to improve relations between nation states and
indigenous peoples.

As a representative of the Carter Foundation, the Vice President
has helped improve relations between the United States of America and the
Andean Countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. Vice
President Jim played a key role in the drafting and final passage of the
International Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. On 16 December
2010, President Barack Obama declared that the United States is going to sign
the declaration.

The Navajo people elected Vice President Jim for his vision to
foster the language, traditional songs and prayers, and to ensure the
prosperity of the Navajo Nation.

I just received the proclamation from the Vice President. The
Golden Rule teaching is spreading to the four corners of the Earth. The more we
promote the Golden Rule the more we create a culture of peace, interfaith
harmony, understanding, compassion, human right, respect for all forms of life,
right human relationships and better world for all.

Monday, July 1, 2013

Dr. Lisa Gilfillan received the esteemed Golden Rule
International Award, presented by Dr. Clyde Rivers, the Interfaith
Peace-Building Initiative (IPI) Representative to the United Nations in New
York as well as a member of the leadership team of the Golden Rule
International Award. The Golden Rule International Award is now established in
120 nations of the world. This organization seeks out top achievers that live
the Golden Rule in their everyday life – Treat others the way you want to be
treated. This is a new global ethic that the leadership of the Golden Rule
International Award, Patron, current President of Ethiopia, Girma Wolde and
Ambassador Mussie Hailu have embraced and are promoting globally.

Dr. Lisa Gilfillan has created an international
program called, “Women of the World” (WOW). This training program is building
women of the world globally to step into their full potential of leadership. It
is equipping women with skills and education to train families to be
economically empowered and encouraged with knowledge that can transform their
lives. Dr. Lisa Gilfillan won this award for this great humanitarian effort to
empower women of all faiths and cultures around the world.

Dr. Rivers said, “She is an extraordinary woman that
is applying her knowledge and practical experience on the ground globally. She
has reached over 100 nations with her academic knowledge and practical help.
She is a master of the craft of building women, absolutely the best.”